The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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